Russia’s Malakhit Marine Engineering Design Bureau has signed
a contract with the Defense Ministry to develop a fifth-generation nuclear-powered
submarine, Design Bureau CEO Vladimir Dorofeyev said in an interview
with Echo Moskvy radio station. "A contract for the development
of a new-generation vessel has been signed with the Defense Ministry.
The next-generation submarine is expected to be fully developed after
2020," Dorofeyev added.

As Russia’s
United Ship-Building Corporation said earlier, about two years will
be required to work out the preliminary design of the fifth-generation
Husky-class multipurpose nuclear-powered submarine. The Malakhit Marine
Engineering Design Bureau in St. Petersburg in northwest Russia is developing
the fifth-generation multipurpose nuclear-powered submarine. Russian
shipbuilders are currently constructing a series of fourth-generation
Project 885 Yasen-class nuclear-powered attack submarines.

United Ship-Building Corporation President Alexei Rakhmanov said previously
that the fifth-generation
submarine "will feature a new weapons suite."
The United Ship-Building Corporation’s task is to maximally standardize
the submarine "to offer a more favorable price to the Russian
Defense Ministry," Rakhmanov added. "If we complete
developing the fourth-generation submarine in 2017-2018 and if we don’t
start the development of the fifth-generation submarine at that time,
we will build it no sooner than 2030," he said in reply to
a question about when the Husky-class submarine would be manufactured.